[tied] Re: *-tro-/*-tlo-

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2007-06-26 20:01, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen wrote:
>
> > I don't know, but all theories will have to live
> with that problem.
> > One possibility is accent shift half-way through
> the process of
> > producing zero-grade: *werH1-tó- > *worH1-tó- >
> *wrH1tó- > *wr.thó-
> > ; at the stage *worH1-, the o-vowel spread to the
> collective which
> > was stressed on the initial.
>
> This could be compared with other Balto-Slavic
> (secondary?) full grades
> in nouns of this structure. Cf. Germanic *Gulþa-
> 'gold' < *g^Hl.'h3-to-
> vs. Slavic *zolto- and Baltic *z^elta-.

These and similar words show both *gYhel-xW-t.o+ and *gYhl,xW-t.o+
so I don't think starting with 0-grade explains this change.

I'd say that when x() > -syllabic between C the xW,>xW>W before t.
in Slavic and n.(y) in Baltic. The remaining +round moved to l, then
el-W > elW- > olW-.